It is located in Delran, New Jersey, and has been listed for sale here on craigslist. It’s an instructive document, suggesting that, in our arrogance, we were bringing a knife we at least half believed was a gun to a firefight with the world’s hungriest pistoleros. This 1990 TC demonstrates this because you could drive it away by handing the owner 5,995. Fun stuff for TC nerds, but it’s the intro that appeals to those of us interested in how the American auto industry threw it away and the strange, often sad trickle of automobiles that resulted from 25 years of circling the drain while Japan, Germany, and South Korea flooded our shores with cars that beat our homegrown machines on value and/or quality. This example here on eBay has under 90,000 miles and features both of these rare options, but the seller notes it needs new valve seals. The latter portion of the video focuses on the brave new world of the TC’s anti-lock-braking system as well as the intricacies of the convertible top’s adjustment. She’d invariably be back for at least one more minivan before the kids were grown, and it’s not as if Honda was building a product in the segment. When a TC owner comes in to the service department, you should go out of your way to be courteous and helpful.” Because, of course, that harried mother of five with a slipping Plymouth Voyager transaxle is not worthy of the same consideration. Of the new car’s prospective customers, the narrator admonishes: “In their jobs and their homes, they command respect. Watching the first part of the video, however, confirms every bias consumers have ever had about dealer service departments. The TC dispensed with the Chrysler’s headlight covers, trading them for a nose job that would seem to presage the Maserati Ghibli II of 1992, gained an optional Maserati-assembled version of the 2.2-liter Chrysler Turbo II four-cylinder with a 16-valve head developed by Cosworth, and came standard with a removable hardtop featuring a round opera window. The TC also rode on a specialized platform, dubbed Q by Chrysler, which traced its roots back to the K-car and shared much with the Dodge Daytona and Chrysler’s redesigned-for-’87 LeBaron convertible. Remember, Lexus didn’t arrive on the U.S. In retrospect, it’s a little hard to take the General’s troika seriously, but in the day, they were still considered viable luxury contenders. At the time, Cadillac was treading the same waters with its Pininfarina-bodied, Hamtramck-assembled Allanté, which utilized a shortened version of General Motors’ E-body front-wheel-drive platform shared with the Toronado, Riviera, and Eldorado.
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